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492 OJ War~ and of Military Establisbmen/s.
discipline of an army. For which purpose officers of
the army, upon whose disposition towards the commonwealth
a great deal may depend, should be taken
from the principal families of the country, and at the
same time also be encouraged to estabiish ill it families
of their own, as well as be admitted to seats in
the senate, to hereditary distinctions, and to all the
civil honours and privileges that are cOIIJpatible \vith
their profession: which circumstances of connexion .
and situation will give them such a share in the gen.
eral rights of the people, and so engage their inclinations
on the sid~ of public liberty, as to afford a reasOllable
securjty that they cannot be brought, by any
pronlises of personal aggrandizement, to assist in the
execution of measures \vhich might enslave their pas·
tenty, their kindred, and their country.